Can I interject? We do the same thing with green energy, obviously: if you try to direct movement towards green energy, we subsidize.
I guess what I'm trying to get around is the question whether we are going to be competitive. Will our economy grow if we substitute for a more expensive form of energy?
Am I missing something?
I've been to China, and I've watched them. I don't know whether they are still doing it, but they built a new coal plant every two weeks. The place is dark. We know that in Japan they have shut off the nuclear.
If we boil it right down, there's nuclear, there's hydro, there's thermoelectric, and there's wind. And yet we know that wind is inconsistent, so unless we develop new batteries or something, gas and oil is still our major source of energy. Am I right?
Janet, maybe you want to make a comment on that.